Penny A. Pasque

Penny A. Pasque is the Brian E. & Sandra O’Brien Presidential Professor and Program Area Coordinator of Adult and Higher Education in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at the University of Oklahoma. She is also an affiliate faculty with Women's and Gender Studies and the Center for Social Justice at OU.

Currently, Penny serves as the associate editor for The Journal of Higher Education. She has been a proud member of ACPA since 1993 and is an ACPA Diamond Honoree. Penny’s research addresses in/equities in higher education, dis/connections between higher education and society, and complexities in critical qualitative inquiry. She is also the primary investigator for the National Study on Women in Higher Education and Student Affairs.

Penny is a faculty for the Student Affairs and Higher Education Administration emphasis areas at OU, teaches Foundations of Student Affairs, Diversity in Higher Education and Qualitative Research, and has served as a keynote speaker and facilitator on diversity and social justice issues across the country. Her research has appeared in The Journal of Higher Education, Qualitative Inquiry, Diversity in Higher Education, The Review of Higher Education, among others. She is author of American Higher Education Leadership and Policy: Critical Issues and the Public Good (Palgrave Macmillan), Empowering Women in Higher Education and Student Affairs (edited with Shelley Errington Nicholson, Stylus), Qualitative Inquiry for Equity in Higher Education: Methodological Innovations, Implications, and Interventions (with Carducci, Kuntz & Gildersleeve, Jossey-Bass), and Critical Qualitative Inquiry: Foundations and Futures (edited with Gaile Cannella and Michelle Salazar Pérez, Left Coast Press).